Foreign entries to Japan up 27.5 pct in March
STORY: Foreign entries to Japan up 27.5 pct in March
DATELINE: April 20, 2023
LENGTH: 00:00:42
LOCATION: Tokyo
CATEGORY: SOCIETY
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1. various of foreign visitors in Tokyo
STORYLINE:
The estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan in March went up by 27.5 percent year on year to total 1,817,500, government data showed Wednesday.
This marked the highest since the country lifted its pandemic-prompted ban on individual and non-prearranged trips last October, the Japan National Tourism Organization said.
Despite signs of recovery, the monthly figure was still 34.2 percent lower than the level seen in March 2019 before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the organization.
It said arrivals from South Korea comprised the largest number of visitors totaling 568,600 in March, while the number of U.S. visitors stood at 203,000.
Visitors from the Chinese mainland doubled from the February figure to reach 75,700 last month, thanks to a growing number of direct flights between the two count
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